 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...twilight primrose : " Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." But such counsel would be wasted on both flowers. I am sure the evening primrose would carry no such... | |
 | 1890 - 168 pages
...that cheapens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 pages
...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 pages
...array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask; I never knew, But, in my simple... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...tones and sweet,— That beauty, in and of itself, is good.'1 This harmonizes with Emerson's couplet: " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." It would seem that the divine author of all things must himself love beauty, or else he would not have... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why then wert there, O rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1891 - 192 pages
...grange." — Tennyson. " Bhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." — Emerson. " Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error,... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being ; Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple... | |
 | 1891 - 438 pages
...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple... | |
 | 1891 - 168 pages
...cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple... | |
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O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you. 
